Fiction & Literature > Historical Fiction

The names of many of the characters in the story are the neighbors and shirttail relatives I knew or heard about from my mother and her siblings. Some characters are real with fictitious names; some characters are fictitious with names of real people. I played with Sandra Rae and Mickey Wells, and Barbara Ann Bennington. Wendell Patterson took me for a short ride on his two-wheeler bicycle when I was four. Lucille Patterson Mauk was my mom’s best friend since early childhood. They attended the Woodland School and McKell High School. Our family attended the Brick Union Christian Church. James Douglas White is a friend from college. He was my orchestra director and classical vio ...

Rheged and three orphaned children are the sole survivors of a barbarian raid. They escape to the Alps of Rhaetia. Rheged must carve out a new life for herself with little more than her bare hands and the help of a stranger with a mysterious past. Set in Sixth Century Europe, this well researched historical novel tells traces the peregrinations of the Arians, a persecuted Christian minority, to their last refuge in the high mountain valleys

Pawns in the Sugarcane is an action-packed story based on American covert operations on the island of Cuba months before the outbreak of the Spanish American War. This work of Historical Fiction tells the story of an American officer and his six Marines that were sent to Cuba under orders in the guise of army deserters. Their mission was to train members of the Cuba Libre and survey possible landing sights for potential offensive operations against the occupying Spanish. Our hero finds intrigue when his orders take him to places he wasn't supposed to go. He and his men find themselves in situations that test the boundaries of his authority and mission when they collide with the realitie ...

Pontius tries to maintain peace, swept into a world of constant rebellions and military massacres as recorded by the respected Hebrew historian Flavius Josephus. Includes the Biblical accuracy in this complete, unabridged, composite drama, The Trial of Yeshua Ha Mashiach,(Jesus The Messiah), as reported by the Gospel writers. Recalled to Rome to be confronted by the hideous Emperor Caligula, charged with killing the defenseless Samaritans and the Prince of Peace. His life in jeopardy, Pontius must find an escape for himself, Claudia and their loyal friends.

The Journal of Virgil Fray Lovejoy, 'My Struggle Through the Civil War,' (Small Print Version) is a gripping novel taken straight from the letters, newspaper articles, first-hand accounts, and journals of Civil War soldiers. This extensively researched work is the brainchild of author Chris Jacobellis who spent over 30 years as a Civil War living historian hobbyist. Follow Virgil from his days as a college student to his farm during the last days of the Civil War. Take this journey back in time before political correctness, when the truth was pure and factual, not contrived to serve a particular agenda. The language is rough and honest. Virgil Lovejoy will grow as a man and a human bei ...

When the founder of the California missions, Junipero Serra, has his heart cut out the day of his death in 1784, it is stuck in a ceramic jar, and rode off on horseback. Within the day, it is lost and for the next two hundred years the heart, floating in brandy, is handed from owner to owner until it ends up at the El Fornio Historical Society in modern day California. During the annual Old Spanish Days festival, the heart is stolen and curator Hank Peabody, Jr., and his “cousin” Janet Librado are called to action with their band of misfit friends to find the thief of the heart and set things right. “Whoever controls the heart” Janet reminds Hank, “Controls history.” Hank, however ...

Is there really a Virgin Birth narrative in the earliest New Testament manuscripts, or has the nativity story of Jesus been misinterpreted? Was Mary, the mother of Jesus, really "impregnated" with child? Or was she, rather, "found" with child? Was Mary really shocked that she was going to get pregnant? Or was she, rather, shocked that her son was expected to become the one who would fulfill the Jewish messianic mission and reign "for ever"? Join DS Waggoner on a journey back in time to discover unknown facts about earliest New Testament manuscripts, as they were presented to her by an elderly Jewish man in a library.

A book based on real events and places, telling the story about Love, Deceit, Persecution, and Redemption in the country of Myanmar, ruled by a Military Junta. Dan Kyle risks accepting a teaching assignment in the city of Yangon, while also falling in love with another teacher. He would soon find himself in a Prison surrounded by jungle, trying to survive and seeking release and redemption, but is it possible?

In Book One, a weekend camping trip at the Perkins’ Place is filled with mishaps for Jack and Ryan Walsh, and their college friends, affecting Ryan physically and spiritually. These events are connected to a massacre: Frank Perkins’ wife, children and unborn child were butchered...Ryan's teenage love was murdered. Local racists are suspected--hateful xenophobic bigots who have been taunting Frank for years with destruction and fear--but no proof can be found. Now Jack fears for his brother's life, so the group turns to their friend, a Native American prodigy, who tries to interpret the signs and discovers they cannot do it alone. The men must take a spiritual journey to find mis ...